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If you’re a scientist with an artistic bent and a flare for the dramatic, and your goal is to mark the 35th anniversary of the first conscious attempt to contact extraterrestrials, could there a more natural appliance for sending a message to three new born stars than your iPhone?

Centauri Dreams reports on Joe Davis’ recent commemoration of the Sagan-Drake transmission. With the Arecibo Observatory’s coder down (i.e. the “usual” means of creating a transmission) and time wasting, perhaps the world’s first blended form scientist/artist found a way to get the job done:

Creative solutions were called for. Inspired in part by techniques I used 25 years ago to interface with Millstone Radar for the Poetica Vaginal transmission, we converted the 1434-mer RuBisCo sequence into an analog audio file that I recorded on my iPhone. Then, we actually interfaced my iPhone with Arecibo’s powerful radar and transmitted from approximately 11:30 p.m. until 12:45 a.m. The duration of each transmission was approximately 5 times longer than the 1974 Sagan-Drake transmission.

Joe Davis contemplating the first ever interstellar iPhone call

…we managed to send the RuBisCo gene sequence to three “nearby” stars:

1st star: GJ 83.1 (sent at 23:38:45 on 07 November 2009)

2nd star: Teagarden’s star SO 025300.5+165258

3rd star: Kappa Ceti (G5B)

Now I have the coolest iPhone in the world.

And, that’s gotta be one of the coolest true stories ever told…

What’s your take?

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